Surprise phone call

[Coney]

Just had a call from a guy, he was given my number by a local farmer on whose land I control the rabbits. He wants to meet me either later this week or early next week to show me around his estate ( approx 80 acres of mature broad leaf woodland and literally a few mins walk away ) with the intention of controlling grey squirrels

[Lloyd57]

Sounds promising Coney I hope it comes off for you mate.
Lloyd

[Artfull-Bodger]

good luck , word of advise, don't turn up in cammo gear for the meet!

[Coney]

good luck , word of advise, don't turn up in cammo gear for the meet!

Good advice, and I would never do that I have approached several farmers / land owners over the years, always dressed smart casual, and only had 1 negative response so far

It sounds very promising as he mentioned that he had installed 5 motion activated cameras around the feeders and he had over a 1000 activations in 5 days a good mix of greys and reds caught on the cameras

I have plenty of land which is good for hunting on after dark but it would be great to get permission on some land that is good for a bit of daylight pest control

[Blackmax]

good luck , word of advise, don't turn up in cammo gear for the meet!

Go dressed as a squirrel, that should do the trick!

[TonyL]

Just had a call from a guy, he was given my number by a local farmer on whose land I control the rabbits. He wants to meet me either later this week or early next week to show me around his estate ( approx 80 acres of mature broad leaf woodland and literally a few mins walk away ) with the intention of controlling grey squirrels

Sounds near enough a done deal already, then.

Excellent! Enjoy!

[Coney]

Sounds near enough a done deal already, then.

Excellent! Enjoy!

Hope so Tone, he did contact me which is a first and sounds very keen to be rid of the greys

Be nice to use the springers in anger

[junglie]

you'll be saving the reds too,just be sure to id your target positivly first, make sure it's a grey.

[Coney]

you'll be saving the reds too,just be sure to id your target positivly first, make sure it's a grey.

What? I can't shoot them all















Saving the Reds is what the permission is all about

[bootneckbob]

Nice news for you sounds great. Now, a nice Steyr semi auto would be usful
Good luck with the shoot.